SEEN OFF WEST SEATTLE: USCGC Polar Star; post-cargo Zhen Hua 33

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(Photo by Gary Jones)

Seen in Elliott Bay this afternoon: Above and below, USCGC Polar Star, the heavy icebreaker just back from a three-month-plus mission to Antarctica, as previewed here last night.

(Photo by Don Brubeck)

And below, Zhen Hua 33 has finished delivering the drydock Evolution to Vigor on Harbor Island – its appearance without cargo startled at least a few people into thinking it was a sinking ship:

No photo, but someone texted about a passing submarine today, too.

sc March 16, 2018 (6:01 pm)

Semper Paratus!

junctioneer March 17, 2018 (8:57 am)

I didn’t write in regarding the “sinking” ship, but the reason it appeared to be sinking was not because it didn’t have any cargo. It actually lowered into the water such that the middle body was below the water to let out the drydock, then it raised again. The picture in the post above was when it was raised, not lowered. It had the appearance of sinking.

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